Ever since its launch in 2009, WhatsApp has taken the world by storm and has since become the most popular texting app globally. The fact that it is simple to use, supports almost every existing platform and allows you to send everything from music, PDFs, photos and much more, has drawn more billions of users.
It now features over 1.5 billion monthly active users and ranks third amongst the most used social networks today. Being such an integral part of our everyday lives, we mustn’t lose our messages or data at any point in time. This can be done by backing up your messages, either manually or letting the app do it periodically.
In this guide, we are going to explain how you can safely back up your WhatsApp messages as well as restore the data.
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How to backup and restore WhatsApp data (Android)?
- Once you’re on the Home page in the app, hit the three vertical dot option in the top right-hand corner, and in the menu that pops up, and tap on Settings from the dropdown menu.
- Now tap on Chats and Chat backup on the next page.
- You will now see a green coloured button labelled Back-Up, tap on that to start the backup.
WhatsApp will start backing up data by default to your phone’s internal storage. However, if you are logged in with your Google account on your device, then you will get the option to create a backup to your Google Drive. This is particularly useful when you’re installing WhatsApp on a new device. You can select Backup to Google Drive option and then choose your account to continue with the process.
If you want to restore the backup on a new smartphone, log in to it using the same email as the one where you backed the data in the steps above, and install and open the WhatsApp app. Once you’ve signed in, WhatsApp will show you a prompt, saying it has detected a backup. Now tap Restore and select the file from the options shown. Your messages and data will now start restoring.
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